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Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture
Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson James Wilson
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Description for Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture
Paperback. Featuring 13 essays, this collection unites the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices. The contributors span a range of academic fields, including English, education, history and sociology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: CFG; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Presenting thirteen essays, editors James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson unite the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices. The contributors span a range of academic fields including English, education, history, and sociology. Several contributors are themselves disabled or have disabled family members. While some essays included in this volume analyze the ways that representations of disability construct identity and attitudes toward the disabled, other essays use disability as a critical modality to rethink economic theory, educational practices, and everyday interactions. Among the disabilities discussed are various physical disabilities, mental illness, ... Read more
Presenting thirteen essays, editors James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson unite the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices. The contributors span a range of academic fields including English, education, history, and sociology. Several contributors are themselves disabled or have disabled family members. While some essays included in this volume analyze the ways that representations of disability construct identity and attitudes toward the disabled, other essays use disability as a critical modality to rethink economic theory, educational practices, and everyday interactions. Among the disabilities discussed are various physical disabilities, mental illness, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809323937
SKU
V9780809323937
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About Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson James Wilson
James C. Wilson is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and the author of Vietnam in Prose and Film, John Reed for the Masses, and The Hawthorne and Melville Friendship. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson is a professor of English at Miami University and the author of Writing Against the Family: Gender in Lawrence and Joyce, and From Community to ... Read more
Reviews for Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture
"This is a needed book, with a much-needed focus...to further the argument put forth in disability studies that 'disability' is a socially-constructed label and that the material circumstances of 'disabled' people's lives are closely tied to 'non-disabled' society's construction of those lives. It also argues for the agency of the disabled: for their right to speak for themselves." - Patricia ... Read more